By Bobbi Burger Brunoehler of BobbisBargains.
Substitute out pricey saffron - Klearchos Kapoutsis/flickr
With all the holiday cooking and baking that goes on, it is likely that you will open a recipe (like one of Yazmin’s non-traditional desserts) and discover you are out of an ingredient. Sometimes going to get that missing item can be impossible (snowed in) or expensive (saffron is $40 per ounce or more). What’s a cook to do?
Substitute!
If you understand what each ingredient is doing in the recipe, you can find something else that will do the same thing.
